Quoting Dan Bergan (danb at berganconsulting.com):
> >
> > That is simply wrong. The user is over-paying taxes.
>> in Ohio, that may not be the case:
>http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:sJHJL5Jp2KEJ:tax.ohio.gov/divisions/legal/documents/02ST_Opinion020004_TMZ.pdfl&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us> (google cache of a tax commissioner judgment pdf...)
>
A bunch of baloney, in my opinion, and it is the opinion of one tax
commissioner. The "obtained by buying your product" is ridiculous, and
I strongly doubt that any court would find in support -- the consideration
is not fungible.
I am not surprised you had to get it from a cache, as it should have
been deleted. 8-)
A discount is a discount; if the proprietor chooses to give a discount
specifically on a taxable item as the promotion, they certainly may.
That all being said, it certainly illustrates why tax calculation
is so difficult.
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